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[Mary Beth Berkley <murbith@gmail.com>]

Very interesting and eye opening.  Thank you for sharing.

MB

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network <lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> How trees talk to each other
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_
> to_each_other?language=en#
>
> "A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard.
> Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding
> discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the
> harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the
> natural world with new eyes.
>
> Suzanne Simard studies the complex, symbiotic networks in our forests.
> Why you should listen
> A professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia's
> Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences in Vancouver, Suzanne Simard
> studies the surprising and delicate complexity in nature. Her main focus is
> on the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate
> underground inter-tree communication and interaction. Her team's analysis
> revealed that the fungi networks move water, carbon and nutrients such as
> nitrogen between and among trees as well as across species. The research
> has demonstrated that these complex, symbiotic networks in our forests --
> at the hub of which stand what she calls the "mother trees" -- mimic our
> own neural and social networks. This groundbreaking work on symbiotic plant
> communication has far-reaching implications in both the forestry and
> agricultural industries, in particular concerning sustainable stewardship
> of forests and the plant’s resistance to pathogens. She works primarily in
> forests, but also grasslands, wetlands, tundra and alpine ecosystem
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